“The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh in light of ‘the art revolution taking place in Saudi Arabia’, he says.”
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Tamara Rojo To Return To Stage This June
“English National Ballet’s artistic director Tamara Rojo will perform the lead role in the company’s production of Swan Lake for select dates at the Royal Albert Hall this summer.”
How Australian Libraries Are Transforming Themselves
“Libraries across the country are redefining themselves as dynamic and multi-functional cultural centres. While they continue to provide a haven for quiet reading and reflection in the noise of a big city, by night they are discovering a second vocation as centres of community interaction and broader cultural exploration.”
Cellist Janos Starker, 88
“Starker had played principal cello in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for five seasons during the 1950s and had been a professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1958. His cello seminars arttracted students from all over the world.”
The Next Power Couple Of Indie Film?
“[Noah] Baumbach has a wary gaze and speaks in careful loops of retraction and calibration; it’s hard to imagine that he spent years doing improvised comedy, during and after college. … [Greta] Gerwig, who is twenty-nine, also has a precise, literate mind, but she is more buoyant, and sometimes has the air, not uncommon among her contemporaries, of having swallowed a very low dose of LSD.”
How Much Has Russia’s Literary Culture Changed?
Here’s a scene from a recent literary award ceremony: “The videos featured many extreme close-ups, with no effort to conceal writerly pallor, blemishes or facial tics. … The real writers standing onstage looked very small in comparison. Some shifted from side to side, eyes downcast; others trembled. After each prize was announced, models emerged to give trophies to the winners and iPads to the less fortunate. No one looked very happy about the iPad.”